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10 Questions with Girol Karacaoglu and Graham Hassall
Q1: Can you briefly describe what social policy is? A traditional answer has been that social policy focused on ‘welfare’ for the needy plus, more...
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Social Policy Practice and Processes in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
A wide-ranging, multi-author work covering all aspects of social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand ebook
An indispensable guide for social work students
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Defining Social Work in Aotearoa
How social work has tracked societal change in New Zealand
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10 Questions with Michael Dale, Kieran O’Donoghue and Hannah Mooney
1. What was the motivation for writing this book? Over the past decade several of our longstanding and former staff members who held the oral histo...
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Tutira Mai reviewed in the Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Social Issues
Thomas O’Brien, lecturer in Political Sociology at the University of York, has reviewed Tūtira Mai: Making change in Aotearoa New Zealand for the A...
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Urgent Moments
The story of a remarkable art activation
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10 questions with Kathryn Hay, Michael Dale and Lareen Cooper
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Social Work in Aotearoa New Zealand? Everything! The vibrancy of colour, the easy-to-read f...
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Local Tools for Global Change
Research papers informed by the UNAIDS vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths, and based on using local tools to effect global change
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Michael Dale
Dr Michael Dale has been a senior lecturer in the Social Work and Social Policy Programme at Massey’s University’s School of Social Work since 2001 and has 33 years’ work experience within the social services sector.
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HomeGround
A place for hope and transformation
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Lareen Cooper
Lareen Cooper is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School in the Social Work and Social Policy programme at Massey University’s School of Social Work. She has worked at Massey for nine years, and has an extensive background in health services management.
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Tūtira Mai
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Tūtira Mai ebook
A book for those wanting to effect change in Aotearoa
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Bill & Shirley
An exemplary memoir examining the complex, remarkable lives of two very famous New Zealanders
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The Editorial Board
Anna Brown Professor, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works...
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Massey University Press
Massey University Press publishes award-winning books across a range of genres. Our list includes history, design, art, biography and memoir, agric...
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Frequently asked questions
Does Massey University Press publish textbooks? Yes, under the MasseyTexts imprint. We are especially interested in textbooks designed to be used i...
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Kieran O’Donoghue
Associate Professor Kieran O’Donoghue is Head of the School of Social Work at Massey University. He is a registered social worker, and a member of ANZASW.
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Labour of Love
Warm, richly detailed and sometimes shocking
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Heartland Strong
A new vision for the future of New Zealand’s rural communities
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How Should We Live?
A guide to navigating the twenty-first century’s ethical minefields
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Giles Dodson
Giles Dodson is a senior lecturer and course co-ordinator for Tū Tira Mai: Practising Engagement at Massey University.
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Margaret Tennant
Emeritus Professor Margaret Tennant was formerly Professor of History at Massey University, and is now an Honorary Research Professor within the School of Humanities.
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Tooth and Veil
The story of the young women charged with waging war on our nation’s poor teeth
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Layne Waerea
Layne Waerea (Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist and educator.
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Precarity
New Zealand’s new social class, and why it must be assisted
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Rand Hazou
Rand Hazou is a Palestinian-Kiwi theatre practitioner and scholar whose research explores theatre engaging with rights and social justice.
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Michael Belgrave
Professor Michael Belgrave is a foundation member of Massey University’s Albany campus, and a highly regarded historian.
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Ans Westra
A woman driven to photograph
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Jo Willis
Jo Willis is an adopted person and a specialist in the field of adoption counselling, coaching and education. She is also a personal and leadership development coach.
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The Treaty on the Ground
The coalface reality of honouring the Treaty of Waitangi in today’s law, local government, education, health, social services and more
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Mark Beehre
Mark Beehre initially trained as a specialist physician and worked for several years in medical practice before studying photography at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland and Massey University
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand ebook
An essential guide to New Zealand’s dynamic agricultural and horticultural industry
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Tony Ballantyne reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘RESPONDING TO WHA...
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10 Questions with Jane Parker, Marian Baird, Noelle Donnelly, and Rae Cooper
Q1: This is a big topic. How did the project begin? The book traverses a range of themes with particular regard to globalisation, technological d...
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Kathryn Hay
Dr Kathryn Hay is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Field Education in the School of Social Work at Massey University. She is a registered social worker and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers.
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Hannah Mooney
Hannah Mooney is a lecturer at Massey University’s School of Social Work.
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Mark Henrickson
Mark Henrickson is Associate Professor in Social Work at Massey University in Auckland, and for many years he worked in HIV-related health and mental healthcare.
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Shiloh Groot
Shiloh Groot (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Uenukukopako) is a lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Auckland.
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An excerpt from Creating New Synergies
PREFACE This book aims to give an overview of how Japanese language education in the tertiary sector in New Zealand is reshaping its delivery and d...
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Carol Neill
Carol Neill was a course co-ordinator in Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters at the Albany campus from 2019 to 2021 and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology.
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor’s speech at the Army Fundamentals launch
Disclaimer: The following comments reflect the personal opinion of the writer, and do not reflect either an official NZDF position, or the opinion...
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Congratulations to MUP author
Congratulations to Massey University Press author Dr Kathryn Hay (Social Work in Aotearoa) of Massey University’s School of Social Work, who has be...
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Rangahau Vol. 3
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Invisible reviewed for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has reviewed Invisible: New Zealand’s history of exclu...
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Kirsty Johnston
Kirsty Johnston is an award-winning investigative journalist with an interest in inequality, gender and social justice.
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Penny Payne
Penny Payne is a social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Hamilton.
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Stephen Chadwick
Stephen Chadwick teaches philosophy in Massey University’s School of Humanities.
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Rangahau Vol. 1
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Rangahau Vol. 2
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Old Black Cloud
A timely contribution to understanding mental health
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Rachael Bell talks to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Social historian Rachael Bell talks about her new book, which examines New Zealand’s pivotal interwar years when many believe the foundation for a...
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Creating New Synergies
An essential guide for teachers of Japanese in New Zealand
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Rangahau Vol. 4
Showcasing Massey University’s leading-edge research
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Extract from Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand
The battle over Māori sovereignty Just when the missionaries were beginning to convince themselves that two decades of arduous and unrewarding labo...
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Anna Brown
Anna Brown is a book designer, educator and researcher who works with visual artists, curators, art historians and musicians.
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Deidre McDonald
Deidre Ann McDonald is a teaching fellow with Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University.
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Ella Kahu
Ella Kahu is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University. Her disciplinary background is social psychology and education and her primary research focus is in student experiences in higher education.
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Frances Walsh
Frances Walsh is an award-winning writer, editor and researcher who has had a long career in journalism.
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Helen Dollery
Helen Dollery is an historian and lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, teaching citizenship as part of the Bachelor of Arts core courses.
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Mark Amery
Mark Amery is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator who works across the public arts and media with a focus on new forms of participation.
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Rachael Bell
Dr Rachael Bell is a lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University whose research is published in leading international journals. He is a regular commentator on political issues.
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Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and works from the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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Susette Goldsmith
Dr Susette Goldsmith is a writer and editor of non-fiction, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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Ten questions with Patrick Shepherd
Q1: What’s your personal connection to Antarctica? As a young boy growing up in the north-east of England, I’d get really excited waking up to a th...
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Making Space
A bold new book that sets the architectural record straight
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Otherhood
Interrogating: Am I mother, or am I other?
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Resetting the Coordinates
A history of performance art
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Great minds share great ideas and strong views
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Tree of Strangers
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery
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Tree Sense
A tree miscellany with a focus on our planet's future
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Becoming Aotearoa
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
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Carl Bradley
Carl Bradley is a lecturer at Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies.
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Margaret Brown
Dr Margaret Brown is a senior social scientist in the People and Agriculture team at AgResearch, Palmerston North.
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Matt McEvoy
Matt McEvoy spreads his time between teaching piano, accepting the occasional local technology contract and writing, with a particular interest in social history.
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Noelle Donnelly
Dr Noelle Donnelly is a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
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Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox is a Wellington historian who specialises in New Zealand’s social and architectural history.
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Ten Questions with Jo Willis and Brigitta Baker
Q1: What prompted you to share your story? JW: This is the book I wished that I could have read secretly under my duvet when I was only just survi...
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A Queer Existence
Growing up gay in New Zealand over the past thirty years
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Finding Frances Hodgkins
A fresh new look at where, when and why Frances Hodgkins painted some of her best-known works
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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Home
Fine essays from twenty-two of New Zealand’s best writers
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Sunday Best
How the imprint of the church dominates New Zealand society even in this secular age
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Downfall
An important new history considered through a queer lens
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10 Questions with David Belgrave and Giles Dodson
Q1: How do you define ‘active citizenship’? We purposefully define ‘active citizenship’ broadly so as to accommodate a diversity of approaches a...
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Andrew Colarik
Dr Andrew Colarik is a senior lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University.
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Margaret Kawharu
Margaret Kawharu, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara/Mahurehure, is the Senior Advisor Māori at Massey University’s Albany campus.
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We Are Here
An extraordinary visual data book like no other
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Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
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Robert Oliver
Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Sāmoa.
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10 Questions with Bill Kaye-Blake, Margaret Brown and Penny Payne
Q1: What prompted you to write this book? BK-B: I’m passionate about agriculture and rural communities. I think we can learn a lot from how people...
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10 Questions with Paul Spoonley
Q1: You’ve written many books and are well acquainted with the highs and lows of the authorial life. But was this one just a bit different? It is d...
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Read a review and extract of HomeGround on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson. ‘For many years the crowds milling outside...
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10 Questions with Christopher Braddock
Q1: This book is dedicated to the late Jim Allen. Can you tell us about his impact and his legacy? Jim was a central figure in the development of...
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Encountering China reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Bolin Hu reviews Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Brian Moloughney and Duncan Campbell: ENCOUNTERING CHINA...
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Urgent Moments reviewed on Kete
Graham Reid has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber...
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State of Threat reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
Jenny Nicholls reviews State of Threat: The challenges to Aotearoa New Zealand's national security edited by Wil Hoverd and Deidre Ann McDonald in...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Waiheke Weekender
It might be a whopper, coming in at 650 pages, but Michael Belgrave’s sweeping history of New Zealand is a fluent, authoritative, and often revisio...
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Kerry Taylor
Professor Kerry Taylor is the head of the School of Humanities at Massey University.
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Ans Westra: A life in photography reviewed in North & South
Theo Macdonald reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for North & South: ‘Unpacking required. A photograph can tenderly trace a...
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10 Questions with Graham Hassall and Negar Partow
Q1: What prompted you to put this book together? The book overlaps three areas of interests for both of us: the operation of the United Nations sys...
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Invisible reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
A review of Jacqueline Leckie’s Invisible: New Zealand’s history of excluding Kiwi-Indians has appeared in the New Zealand Journal of History’s Apr...
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Ten questions with Joan Skinner
Q1: What drew you to midwifery as a profession? It probably started before I was born. My Dad was a GP obstetrician and he seemed to be always away...
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10 Questions with Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand
Q1: What prompted Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) to do this book now?The idea of a publication about PCANZ had been discussed for a num...
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Extract from Resetting the Coordinates: An anthology of performance art in Aotearoa New Zealand
PART ONE: 1970–91 SETTING THE SCENE IN THE 1970S If, on 2 April 1971, you had journeyed out across the unsealed metal roads to the west coast of th...
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Ten questions with Wil Hoverd and Deidre McDonald
Q1: What is the greatest threat to New Zealand’s security? WH & DM: Undoubtedly, climate change is one of the greatest threats to the security...
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10 Questions with Richard Shaw, author of The Unsettled
Q1: How long after The Forgotten Coast was published did the idea of this book come to you? Pretty quickly. More or less immediately after The Fo...
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Ten questions with Andrew Paul Wood
Q1: When you started this project did you have any idea that you would unearth such a rich cast of characters? Yes and no. Some of these people had...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Health and History
Neil Pollock reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Health and History: ‘This is a superbly written...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in New Zealand International Review
Roderic Alley reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for New Zealand International Review: ‘Born in Cro...
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Extract from Frontline Surgeon by Mark Derby
‘Crouched in a shallow foxhole, focusing each of her cameras in turn, Gerda Taro blazed with determination to record the debacle that surrounded he...
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Ten questions with Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery and Amber Clausner
Q1: Tell us about the title — what was so urgent? SJ: The world was going to end of course! New carbon measures and climate pronouncements had been...
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Read the first chapter of Will to Win
Will to win INTRODUCTION Rivalry, resilience and redemption The Silver Ferns are New Zealand’s national netball team. The team name originates f...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Recorder
Sylvia Martin reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Recorder: ‘Mark Derby’s biography of Dr Doug J...
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10 Questions with Masayoshi Ogino
Now that it’s published, what delights you most about Creating New Synergies? Completion! This journey was very intensive from time to time, invol...
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10 Questions with Mark Derby
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? Almost ten years ago, in 2011, I heard that the old prison was being vacated, and its remaining inm...
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‘A Leader in the Making’: an extract from Experience of a Lifetime
Lindsay Inglis joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in April 1915 as a 20-year-old second lieutenant, and spent the entire war as an o...
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Extract from Old Black Cloud by Jacqueline Leckie
When, in the 1990s, my family doctor put it to me that I was depressed, the biochemical model of brain chemistry was ascendant in the understanding...
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Read an extract from After Winter Comes the Summer
The origins of the music Although the settlers at Pūhoi came from the historic country of Bohemia (a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subseque...
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Nigel Robson talk to RNZ’s Bryan Crump
Our First Foreign War looks at the social impacts of the often overlooked South African War, particularly on New Zealand’s blossoming national iden...
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HomeGround reviewed on The Groove Book Report
Tim Gruar has reviewed HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives by Simon Wilson on his independent book review site, The Groove Book...
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HomeGround author Simon Wilson talks to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon
‘HomeGround opened earlier this year and it is the new home of the Auckland City Mission in Hobson Street in the central city. It was the dream of...
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Urgent Moments co-editors interviewed on 95bFM
95bFM host Frances Chan speaks to two of the three co-editors, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, about their new book Urgent Moments: Art and social ch...
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Urgent Moments’ Amber Clausner interviewed on RNZ
One of the co-editors of Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 by Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram and Amber Clausne...
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Urgent Moments' Mark Avery interviewed on Te Pae
Andrew Armitage talks to Mark Amery and fellow Paekakarki artists Vanessa Crowe and Tim Barlow on community radio show Te Pae, about Urgent Moments...
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Joan Skinner talks to Susie Ferguson on Nine to Noon
Joan Skinner has been a midwife for 50 years, and during that time it’s fair to say, she’s seen it all. Since starting in the profession in 1976, m...
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Tooth and Veil virtual launch
To watch the virtual launch of Tooth and Veil: The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse by Noel O'Hare, click here. Bringing together...
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Stuff interviews Elizabeth Cox, editor of Making Space
Kelly Dennett has interviewed Elizabeth Cox about her new book, Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture, for Stuff. ‘The histo...
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John Daly-Peoples reviews A Kind of Shelter
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy, has been reviewed for...
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Downfall shortlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the...
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Michael Belgrave interviewed on RNZ's Saturday Morning programme
From early Polynesian navigators to missionaries, colonists and migrants, Massey University historian Professor Michael Belgrave has published the...
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David Herkt reviews 30 Queer Lives
‘Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders offers its readers edited interviews condensed into first-person narrativ...
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The power of art to make a difference: Urgent Moments reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples of the New Zealand Arts Review has reviewed Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by...
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Urgent Moments reviewed for Landfall
Andrew Paul Wood reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophi...
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A review of Rooms on New Zealand Arts Review
John Daly-Peoples has reviewed Jane Ussher and John Walsh’s new book Rooms: Portraits of remarkable New Zealand interiors for New Zealand Arts Revi...
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Downfall named one of Unity Books’ top picks
Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay is Marion’s pick in this week’s Unity Books newsletter. They say: ‘This is an historical...
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Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra by Paul Moon
Terry Toner reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for DustyShelves Book Reviews and BookBits: 'A very attractive book and a fascin...
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NZ Listener reviews Dear Oliver
Linda Herrick at NZ Listener reviews Peter Wells’ memoir Dear Oliver: ‘Peter Wells’ haunting new book, Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History, wi...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on Kete
Bob Frame reviews Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour by Jane Robertson: ‘This sumptuous social and environmental...
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Urgent Moments reviewed in EyeContact
John Hurrell reviews Urgent Moments: Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Je...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
Q1: What prompted you to write the book? I was asked to take on the commission a while ago now, back in 2013. It appealed to me because I have long...
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30 Queer Lives reviewed in Tui Motu InterIslands magazine
Matt McEvoy’s 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders has been reviewed in the May edition of Tui Motu InterIslands magazine. Re...
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Waiheke Weekender reviews Sylvia and the Birds
‘Hailed as a ‘part graphic biography, part practical guide to protecting our bird wildlife’, this engrossing book is filled with factoids – includi...
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Agency of Hope reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Barbara Brookes has reviewed Agency of Hope: The story of the Auckland City Mission 1920–2020 by Peter Lineham for the New Zealand Journal of Histo...
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New Zealand Arts Review of Soundings
‘It seems that it is only in the last fifty years that we have taken a new approach to the ocean and our fisheries. Only a few years ago the seas...
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Rewi authors Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake speak to Mark Amery on Culture 101
Authors of the major publication Rewi: Āta haere, kia tere Jeremy Hansen and Jade Kake, along with Rewi Thompson's daughter Lucy, recently spoke to...
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Sunday Best reviewed in Toi Motu magazine
Toi Motu InterIslands magazine featured a review of Peter Lineham’s Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the churc...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in North & South
Solomon Lewis reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for North & South:...
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August to April: The gestation of Massey University Press
In late August 2015, Massey University Press began with a single employee: respected former Random House New Zealand publishing director Nicola Leg...
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Read an extract from Urgent Moments on the Spinoff
The producers of Letting Space, Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram, recently teamed up with Amber Clausner to co-edit and produce Urgent Moments: Art and...
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10 Questions with Sue Kedgley
Q1: You’ve had books published before, of course, and so this one is not a new experience but is there something that sets it apart from the others...
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Downfall reviewed in The National Oral History Association of New Zealand newsletter
Roger M. Smith, a Wellington PhD student in German Poetry and Rights Officer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, has reviewed Paul Diam...
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Simon Wilson talks HomeGround with Kete Books
As part of their 12 Books of Christmas series, Kete interviewed Simon Wilson about HomeGround: The story of a building that changes lives: What le...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Australian Historical Studies
Giselle Byrnes reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Australian Historical Studies: ‘All histories refle...
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10 Questions with Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu and Richard Shaw
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging? Perhaps it’s the ‘thingness’ of the book itself – we...
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Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War
Mike Houlahan reviews Our First Foreign War for Otago Daily Times, 19 June 2021. ‘In the introduction to this excellent book, Nigel Robson sets out...
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An unwelcome history — Otago Daily Times features Invisible
It is difficult to believe that this was, that this is, New Zealand. In December, 1925, the White New Zealand League held its first meeting in the...
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David Herkt reviews A Queer Existence
‘The 27 young gay men in Mark Beehre’s square-format photographs look out upon us from a position of almost preternatural stillness. They might be...
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10 Questions with Hazel Phillips
Q1: Why go solo? For me a big part of the joy of tramping is attempting things you think might be (too) hard. If you’re lured by the challenge, it...
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Downfall reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender
Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond has been reviewed in the Waiheke Weekender: ‘“Sergeant, I shot a young man through the...
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Living Between Land and Sea reviewed on New Zealand Arts Review
Jane Robertson's most recent book Living Between Land and Sea: The bays of Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour has been reviewed by John Daly-Peoples on N...
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Erebus The Ice Dragon reviewed in Polar Record
Bob Frame has reviewed Colin Monteaths’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, the first social and cultural history of the mo...
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Eat Pacific: These Books Explore How Deeply Food Matters To People And The World
Danielle Nierenberg writes for Forbes magazine: ‘The food system is about so much more than the food on our plates and in our bowls. Yes, I’m a ner...
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Fire & Ice reviewed in NZ Listener
Claire Williamson reviews Fire & Ice by Hazel Phillips for NZ Listener: ‘Earth, air, fire, water, aether. These may sound like spellcasting el...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
1. Urgent. How urgent? Always urgent, in the sense that climate change, the poverty of our political options and the relationship of race, identit...
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Read an extract from Promises Promises
Extract from Promises Promises: 80 years of wooing New Zealand voters, by Claire Robinson. If the male voter’s duty to the state was as head of his...
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10 Questions with Simon Wilson
Q1: You’ve got a really big day job at the Herald and so accepting the invitation to write this book must have given you pause. Why did you decide...
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Ten question Q&A with Michael Belgrave
Q1: At the start of this book you tell the reader about the urge you felt to write some sort of a history in the immediate wake of the mosque shoot...
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Becoming Aotearoa reviewed in Landfall Online
Nicholas Reid reviews Becoming Aotearoa by Michael Belgrave for Landfall Online: ‘When historians attempt to chronicle the whole history of a coun...
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10 Questions with Mark Beehre
Q1: What prompted you to begin this project? I did the first few interviews and photographs as part of the studio component of a Master of Fine Ar...
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Massey University Press titles shortlisted in 2023 Booklovers Awards
Three Massey University Press titles have been shortlisted in the Booklovers Awards for 2023. HomeGround: The story of a building that changes live...
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NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West by Tania Mace
Lyn Potter from NZ Booklovers reviews The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere by Tania Mace: 'The Near West is a fascinatin...
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Salmon on Tuna — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Salmon on Tuna Dan Salmon My mum used to make a microwaved curry with canned tuna and raisins, zapped in an smoky oval Arcoroc microwave dish. My...
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10 Questions with Margaret Tennant and Geoff Watson
Q1: Why Palmerston North? What prompted you to see this book in print? GW: It has been nearly 50 years since Petersen’s centennial history of Palme...
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10 Questions with the editors of Tū Rangaranga
Q1: What is the meaning of Tū Rangaranga and what impact did that have on how the book was written? In 2017 we (Rand Hazou, Margaret Forster and Sh...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie, author of Old Black Cloud
Q1: The first-ever social history of mental depression in New Zealand . . . what drew you to this topic? It comes from my long-term research, tea...
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10 Questions with Tania Mace
Q1: Where did the idea for this book come from? I’d always been interested in the history of the area and I thought I’d like to write a book about...
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Old Black Cloud reviewed in Sunday Star-Times
Sapeer Mayron reviews Old Black Cloud: A cultural history of mental depression in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jacqueline Leckie for the Sunday Star-Tim...
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10 Questions with Shiloh Groot
1. Why did you all want to write this book? Because knowledge shouldn’t be hoarded by elite individuals. Because we want to share the stories of...
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winning entries from the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. The first prize winners will...
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10 Questions with Cliff Simons
Q1: The New Zealand Wars, the Land Wars, the Māori Wars — these nineteenth-century conflicts have had a few name changes, as well as changing ideas...
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10 Questions with Nigel Robson
Q1: Has the South African War 1899-1902 been overlooked in our history? While the war itself has not been overlooked, it has long existed in the sh...
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10 Questions with Robert Oliver, editor of Eat Pacific
Q1: In a nutshell, what is Pacific Island Food Revolution all about? Pacific Island Food Revolution uses the power of reality TV, radio and socia...
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Ans Westra reviewed in Art New Zealand
Mary Macpherson reviews Ans Westra: A life in photography by Paul Moon for Art New Zealand: ‘For nearly 70 years, Ans Westra photographed the life...
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Grey Is a Feminist Issue — An excerpt from The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Grey Is a Feminist Issue Claire Robinson 2015 was the year grey hair went mainstream. What started in the noughties as the street-fashion trend ‘...
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10 Questions with Claire Massey
1. What’s the focus of this year’s edition of The New Zealand Land & Food Annual? This year we’ve focused on food, and more specifically the ‘...
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10 Questions with Peter Lineham
1. How did you arrive at the idea of this book? I thought about writing a textbook on New Zealand religious history, and it seemed to me a very du...
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10 Questions with Johanna Emeney
Q1: Jack Ross invited you to be the guest editor of the 2020 edition of Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. Terrifying? Or a great opportunity? Dame Chri...
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10 Questions with Noel O’Hare
Q1: What drew you to write about this subject? I was researching material for the Public Service Association’s centenary celebrations and I became...
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10 Questions with Barbara Sumner
Q1: Now your book has gone off to print, how are you feeling? I am relieved, neurotic, trepidatious. And very pleased. Q2: When did you decide tha...
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The New Zealand Listener reviews 30 Queer Lives
Andrew Paul Wood has reviewed 30 Queer Lives: Conversations with LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders for the New Zealand Listener. You can read the full review...
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Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide reviewed in Architecture New Zealand
Daniel K Brown has reviewed the latest in our walking guide series by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds, Wellington Architecture: A Walking Guide, fo...
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Fifty Years a Feminist reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Sue Kedgley’s Fifty Years a Feminist has been reviewed by Charlotte MacDonald of Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. In the latest...
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David Herkt reviews Downfall for Kete
An excellent review of Paul Diamond’s Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay has appeared on Kete. David Herkt writes: ‘The death of a New Zea...
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Downfall reviewed in the New Zealand Journal of History
Will Hansen has reviewed Downfall: The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond: 'THE ‘WANGANUI SENSATION’ is a major event in New Zealand’s q...
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Becoming Aotearoa: Newsroom’s book of the week
Philip Matthews reviews Becoming Aotearoa: A new history of New Zealand by Michael Belgrave for Newsroom’s book of the week: ‘Was the Christchurch...
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Grid reviewed in New Zealand Journal of History
Neill Atkinson reviews Adam Claasen’s Grid: The life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell for New Zealand Journal of History: ‘...
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Remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen Kós at the launch of From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University
From Empire’s Servant to Global Citizen Launch remarks by the Hon Justice Stephen KósPresident of the Court of Appeal and former Pro-Chancellor of...
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10 Questions with Karen Denyer and Monica Peters
Q1: Why wetlands? KD I’ve always had a soft spot for the underdog, the tatty stray cat, the three-legged dog, those most in need of love. For me we...
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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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Extract from The Near West: A History of Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere
This book is about three adjoining Auckland suburbs — Grey Lynn, Arch Hill and Westmere — and the people who have lived here. As in all suburbs, th...
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10 Questions with Kevin Stafford
1. Now that it’s published, what pleases you most about Livestock Production in New Zealand? At present the New Zealand economy depends greatly on...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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10 Questions with David Straight
Can you remember the moment you knew you wanted to create a book about John Scott? I had been thinking of a book on John Scott for a few months pri...
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Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts and Spies
Launch speech for Soldiers, Scouts & Spies, by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Taylor E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā hau e whā Tēnā koutou tēnā koutou...
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Read the introduction of Tooth and Veil
Tooth and Veil NOEL O'HARE Introduction Shop assistants working along the ‘golden mile’ in Wellington had witnessed many marches down Lambton...
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10 Questions with Sara McIntyre
Q1: You’ve been taking photographs all your life. But was there a moment recently when you felt you could finally say to yourself, ‘Yes, I am a pho...
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10 Questions with Jacqueline Leckie
Q1: How did the book come about? The book follows from my historical research and friendships with Indian people in Aotearoa dating back to the mi...
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10 Questions with Ella Kahu, Te Rā Moriarty, Helen Dollery and Richard Shaw
Q1: Tūrangawaewae was first published in 2017 and has reprinted a number of times. Why is it so successful? Part of that has to do with the fact t...
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Ten questions with Kennedy Warne
Q1: You are known for writing about a range of outdoors and environmental subjects. Why did you choose the sea for this book? In 2000, after writin...
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10 Questions with Jane Robertson
Q1: Why did you want to write this book?Whakaraupō Lyttelton Harbour is my home, the place I love, my tūrangawaewae. I wanted to understand this pl...
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Ten Question Q&A with Annette O'Sullivan
1. In a country full of woolsheds, why these particular fifteen? There were many possible woolsheds, but the fifteen woolsheds in the book were sel...
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Woolsheds reviewed in Shearing Magazine
Des Williams reviews Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher for Shearing Magazine: ‘M...
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Ten questions with Kirsty Johnston and James Hollings
Q1: New Zealand is a small country — and was even smaller in 1970 — and so it just seems incredible that this murder has never been solved. How is...
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Extract from Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
‘The first Pasifika poet of the modern diaspora to emerge in Aotearoa New Zealand was Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, who was born in Rarotonga in 1925...
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Extract from Eat Pacific by Robert Oliver
It began with a simple realisation. Over the course of a generation, there had been a fundamental shift in the way Pacific people ate. Processed fo...
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Extract from Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
‘Late one afternoon in March 1860 a man in a thin green velveteen jacket and a wide-awake hat arrived on foot at a sheep station named Glenmark, ab...
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Extract from Edith Collier: Early New Zealand modernist
St Ives, summer, 1920. The New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins is busy with a painting school and a ‘crowd of pupils’ is distracting her from her o...
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Hazel Phillips’ Solo a ‘riveting read’
Carolyn Enting has reviewed Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand, the new book by Hazel Phillips on her three years’ adventuring i...
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Encountering China reviewed on NBR
Nevil Gibson has reviewed Encountering China: New Zealanders and the People’s Republic edited by Duncan Campbell and Brian Moloughney. ‘Many reade...
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Ten Question Q&A with Mark Derby
Q1: You would have come across Doug Jolly while working on your 2009 book Kiwi Campaneros, about the New Zealanders who fought in the Spanish Civil...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Otago Daily Times
Mike Houlahan reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Otago Daily Times: ‘A few decades ago, hit Ame...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Landfall Review Online
Eric Trump reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Landfall Review Online: ‘‘It is well that war is...